Linus Torvalds Quotes

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

I love collaborating with people.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

I love working closely with people.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I love collaborating with different people.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.